Ministries Vision International was born in July 1990 when two small churches, one in Palestine, Texas, and one in Tucuman, Argentina joined together to send a ministry team to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Juan Carlos Manzewitsch and Rick and Jane Paris, along with their four children, made the trip to San Miguel to engage in a week of street evangelism and then a second week of evangelistic services. Throughout that time, they were surprised by the power of God, and when the evangelistic campaign ended that second week, a church was born.

Two weeks after the church was birthed, a missions teams from Palestine Church came to San Miguel to do more street ministry and to conduct a vacation bible school. When the team from Palestine was there, the Lord gave them a song out of Psalm 2 — “My children ask me of me, and I will give you nations as an inheritance, say the Lord.” Throughout that week, they sang that song during their devotional times together, prophesying that one day God would touch the nations through this small ministry. They were only three small churches, located in 3 cities, in 3 separate countries, so this seemed really ridiculous. They had no money, no resources, and not many friends. But they did have a word and a promise from God. They believed God wanted to give them the nation of Mexico first, and then other nations would come.

In faith, they began to send out teams to minister in central Mexico. From San Miguel de Allende to Queretaro, Celaya, Cortazar, San Juan del Rio, Mexico City, and on and on until today, MVI churches and ministries stretch from the Rio Grande River in the north to the border of Guatemala in the south, from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean in the east. Now, over 35 years later, MVI has extended into over 20 different countries worldwide, with over 1000 churches and ministries ministering in those countries.